Detail from The Canal, Amsterdam, 1889, James McNeill Whistler, The Hunterian, University of Glasgow

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M.0176
Copy after Turner's 'Rockets and blue lights (close at hand) to warn steam-boats of shoal water'

Artist: James McNeill Whistler
Date: 1854/1855
Collection: Private Collection
Accession Number: none
Medium: watercolour
Support: paper laid down on card
Size: 20 1/8" x 28 5/8" (511 x 727 mm)
Signature: 'Whistler'
Inscription: none
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Copy after Turner's 'Rockets and blue lights (close at hand) to warn steam-boats of shoal water'

Catalogues Raisonnés

  • MacDonald, Margaret F., James McNeill Whistler. Drawings, Pastels and Watercolours. A Catalogue Raisonné, New Haven and London, 1995 (cat. no. 3) as "Copy after Turner's 'Rockets and blue lights (close at hand) to warn steam-boats of shoal water' ".
  • Young, Andrew McLaren, Margaret F. MacDonald, Robin Spencer, and Hamish Miles, The Paintings of James McNeill Whistler, New Haven and London, 1980 (cat. no. 5) as 'copy after Turner'.

Catalogues 1906-Present

  • Lochnan, Katharine A., Turner, Whistler, Monet: Impressionist Visions, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, Tate Britain, London, 2004

Last updated: 26th February 2021 by Margaret